This coming Monday on Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, we start our series on community disaster preparedness, not the bunker fantasy, but interdependence, mutual aid and community resilience (1/3)

On today's episode of #DemandUtopia: A #Solarpunk #Podcast, we examine the rise of solar power and the systems keeping electricity so expensive. Listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts, and share your thoughts in the comments below! solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

Watching NASA’s press conference about the moon base and whatever else like… it’s a big complicated engineering project and we’re going to learn so much by trying. And CAN YOU IMAGINE if we were *also* having these press conferences about all the rewilding and infrastructure jobs about to open up

On today's podcast, our host @justinenortonkertson.com reads two short stories from Solarpunk Magazine Issue 27: "Between Mortar and Magic," by Alex Vossler, and "What the Sea Remembers," by @dmombauer.bsky.social Listen at solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi... or wherever you get your podcasts!

On today's episode of #DemandUtopia a #Solarpunk #Podcast from #SolarpunkMagazine, we look at the recent UN vote on climate action and the idea that climate aid isn’t charity, but rather is an obligation. Listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts! solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

30 thousand downloads of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast. Thank you to all our listeners!

On today's episode of #DemandUtopia a #Solarpunk #Podcast from #SolarpunkMagazine, we look at the recent UN vote on climate action and the idea that climate aid isn’t charity, but rather is an obligation. Listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts! solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

When disaster comes, the apocalyptic prepper fantasy says: run, hide, protect your own. But real survival has never worked that way. This summer on Demand Utopia, we’re talking about disaster prep as mutual aid, community care, and the infrastructure of survival. #solarpunk #demandutopia #podcast

A new episode of the #demandutopia #podcast just dropped, exploring the rights of nature movement and both successful and unsuccessful attempts to grant legal rights to different aspects of nature. Listen at solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi... or wherever you get your podcasts!

Our latest podcast episode hit this morning, examining the energy transitions mining problem and imagining how solarpunks might do it differently. solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

Issue 27 just dropped! Cover by @writerpaula.bsky.social. Stories by @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, Alex Vossler, & @dmombauer.bsky.social. Poems by @devanbarlow.bsky.social & Zoleikha Baloch. Essay by Aya Al-Hattab + a review of @tkrex.bsky.social's The Wildcraft Drones. #solarpunk #solarpunkmagazine

Loved this episode about the complexity and importance of hopeful stories & "Refusing the claim that cruelty is more realistic than cooperation or that breakdown is more narratable than repair."

New podcast episode just dropped, AI Has a Body: Data Centers, Power Bills, and the Hidden Infrastructure of the Future Listen on our website or wherever you prefer to get your podcasts. solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

We're thrilled to be hosting the cover reveal for WE, THE DROWNING by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social. This hopeful dystopian climate fiction novella publishes from @press-android.bsky.social on September 29, 2026, and is available now for pre-order on Android Press's website (see comments for order link).

Issue 27 just dropped! Cover by @writerpaula.bsky.social. Stories by @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, Alex Vossler, & @dmombauer.bsky.social. Poems by @devanbarlow.bsky.social & Zoleikha Baloch. Essay by Aya Al-Hattab + a review of @tkrex.bsky.social's The Wildcraft Drones. #solarpunk #solarpunkmagazine

The latest episode of Demand Utopia is up with a discussion about why hopeful stories are still so hard to write. Listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts (and YouTube later today, fixing subtitles) #solarpunk #podcasts #demandutopia solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

I’ve got a short story coming out in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social in a couple of days. It’s a love letter to queer punk activism and finding yourself in the music they play on the radio. Here’s a glimpse at the soundtrack that lives in my head: youtu.be/wi6wmjUEC_I?...

Outta control? Need to get out of the state you’re in? Take a trip over to the dark side and listen to Radio Free Luna, broadcasting tomorrow only on @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social. As DJ Candy D likes to say: stay alive, stay free, comrades. youtu.be/BxHyliIspkA?...

Another new episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast dropped today about why the electricity grid should be treated not just as a technological system, but as a care system. Listen on our website, on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts! solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

Season 6 of Demand Utopia launched today with a 2-episode drop: one on solarpunk as more than aesthetics, the other on housing as a litmus test for better futures. Listen at solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi... or wherever you get your podcasts! #solarpunk #SolarpunkMagazine #DemandUtopia #podcast

Congrats to all the nominees, and especially to @lynnesargent.bsky.social whose Solarpunk Magazine poem, "Swamp Witch Season" is a finalist for this year's Rhysling Award!! #solarpunk #poetry

We dropped another new podcast episode making the case for a working-class climate agenda. solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi...

Season 6 of Demand Utopia launched today with a 2-episode drop: one on solarpunk as more than aesthetics, the other on housing as a litmus test for better futures. Listen at solarpunkmagazine.com/demand-utopi... or wherever you get your podcasts! #solarpunk #SolarpunkMagazine #DemandUtopia #podcast

New episodes of the Demand Utopia podcast with host @justinenortonkertson.com drop on Mondays starting May the 4th. Catch up on old episodes on our website or wherever you listen to your podcasts! solarpunkmagazine.com/solarpunk-futures-podcasts

“Solarpunk is, and has always been, overtly political.” - @justinenortonkertson.com 🎧 pod.link/1499036871/e... @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social #solarpunk #scifi #fiction #anarchism

New episodes of the Demand Utopia podcast with host @justinenortonkertson.com drop on Mondays starting May the 4th. Catch up on old episodes on our website or wherever you listen to your podcasts! solarpunkmagazine.com/solarpunk-futures-podcasts

"When Solarpunk Was Mistaken for a Startup Pitch: The Rise and Collapse of Vertical Farming" by @justinenortonkertson.com www.patreon.com/posts/when-s...

"When Solarpunk Was Mistaken for a Startup Pitch: The Rise and Collapse of Vertical Farming" by @justinenortonkertson.com www.patreon.com/posts/when-s...

You've gotta check out the audio story by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social, solarpunk-adjacent horror that touches on issues of immigration, racism, paranoia, and fake news.

We're open for eight more days. Send us your solarpunk fiction, poetry, essays, and art!! We have a "solarpunk horror" issue coming up in November that we're taking submissions for now as well as during our July submission window! More info at the link below!

Solarpunk Magazine submission portals will be open from April 1-14. Send us your hopeful climate fiction, poetry, essays, and art for consideration! Guidelines and sub link can be found at solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions

Solarpunk Magazine Issue 26 is out now and features work by Bella Chacha, Emmett Amphibia @eamphibia.bsky.social, Irene W. Collins, Aspen Greenwood, Kray Van Kirk @krayvankirk.com, Aya Al-Hattab, Justine Norton-Kertson @utopianwitchcraft.bsky.social, and Anselmo J. Alliegro. #solarpunk

Only 24 hours left to back THE COOKOUT and get extras like recipe cards, a cookbook, an online party and workshop, other books by African authors, and more. This anthology features scifi, fantasy, and horror stories that center the tradition of the cookout. Link in bio. @tco-anthology.bsky.social

We're very excited to announce that we have an interview scheduled with Justine Norton-Kertson, our colleague in publishing hopeful SF and founder of @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social #solarpunk #utopia solarpunkmagazine.com

Less than one week left to back THE COOKOUT anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora. Only 250 to go until we open public submissions (paying at least 10 cents per word), and just over 1k to go until we're funded. You can push us over the top! #authors #readers #speculativefiction

Also, I have a series of short stories in @khoreo.bsky.social, @grist.org @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social that explore different angles of a future culture rooted in caregiving (also what a child needs to be taught to make that society possible) raemariz.com/the-field-gu...

Perfect for Black History Month!!

It's Black History Month, and here's an opportunity for you to directly support black authors and editors in their creative careers. This anthology includes stories by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social @davaun.bsky.social @brentclambert.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social and more. Pre-order now!!

We just posted a review of Imagine 2200's latest #solarpunk short story. It's available for both free and paid members of our Patreon page!

Solarpunk Magazine Issue #25 is now available and features cover art by Brianna Castagnozzi, fiction by Rae Mariz and Jeff Hewitt, poems by Mari Ness and Pratibha Kumari, nonfiction by Aya Al-Hattab and Wren James.

Our submission boxes are open! Check out our sub guidelines, then send us your #solarpunk! #writers #authors solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/

We're gauging community interest in a few in-person event ideas. Please take the poll! You don't have to be a member of or join our Patreon to take the poll. All you need to do is click!

Check it out! We're increasing our author pay rates and announcing a "solarpunk horror" issue.

Check it out! We're increasing our author pay rates and announcing a "solarpunk horror" issue.

"Swamp Witch Season" is a poem that's near and dear to my heart, and Solarpunk is a market I've been trying valiantly to crack for years. I'm extra chuffed that this work of mine is the one to grace their pages. 💚🐸☘️

Published! #SolarpunkMagazine Issue 24 features cover art by Anselmo J. Alliegro, Short Stories by Great Opara & Dana Wall, Poems @thepinkhydra.com & @lynnesargent.bsky.social Essay by Yuliia Vereta. #solarpunk #readingcommunity Get a copy at solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpunk-magazine-issue-24

Published! #SolarpunkMagazine Issue 24 features cover art by Anselmo J. Alliegro, Short Stories by Great Opara & Dana Wall, Poems @thepinkhydra.com & @lynnesargent.bsky.social Essay by Yuliia Vereta. #solarpunk #readingcommunity Get a copy at solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpunk-magazine-issue-24

Our poetry editor @tonyarmoore.com is raising money for Jamaica's recovery efforts. Please help if you can!

The Glicksberg Chronicles, Book #1: The Root & the Seed & the Thief In Between, a story about corporate control, stolen futures, and the fight to reclaim what’s yours—body, ancestry, and freedom—by Weyodi OldBear @weyodi.bsky.social, coming March 2026 from Android Press.

Only 10 days until J. Dianne Dotson (aka @jendiagammon.bsky.social)'s THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL is available! Pre-order now from Android Press or your favorite online bookstore! #readers #fantasy #solarpunk #lunarpunk